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Name: NORMAN PRINCE
Launched: 30/04/1885
Completed: 07/1885
Builder: JR Maxwell & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 43
Dimensions: 87grt, 1nrt, 89.8 x 18.6 x 9.5ft; (1889: 91grt, 7nrt)
Engines: SL1cyl (32.5 x 48ins), 35nhp
Engines by: Baird & Barnsley, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 89804
History:
06/07/1885 William H Storey et al, North Shields; registered at North Shields
1899 Sir Lindsay Wood, Chester-le-Street
1900 Registered at Sunderland
1910 Renamed HETTON
1911 The Lambton Collieries Ltd, Newcastle
1911 The Lambton & Hetton Collieries Ltd, Newcastle
1917 The Jarrow Tug & Lighter Co Ltd, Jarrow
1922 Broken up
Comments: 1899: Sir Lindsay Wood was the managing director of The Hetton Coal Co


There were two tugs called HETTON and this could be either of them